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82. T. lupulinum alterum minus Dillen. in Ray’s Syn. (ed. 3) 
330. t. 14. f. 3. — Herb. ann. Mad. reg. 3, r. PS. reg. 4, r. Pico 
da Silva up tbe Caminho do Meio, mountain pastures by the 
Palheiro Levada ; Rib. Frio. In PS. on the rocky summit of 
P. do Faclio on the S. side abundant. Apr. -Aug. — Habit entirely 
of T. procumbens L. but altogether smaller or more delicate in 
every part, mostly smoother, with shorter leafstalks longer 
peduncles and much smaller looser heads of fewer distinct fl. 
like little spiked balls only 2-3 lines in diam. Leafstalks very 
short half as long as in T. procumbens L. Stip. half ovafe acute 
entire simply rounded at their outer base. Middle 1ft. di- 
stinctly stalked. Lfts. small more retuse or truncate than in 
T. procumbens L. Ped. often twice as long as the 1. Fl. 10-15 
subumbellate and all distinctly though shortly pedicelled, 
tubular compressed lemon-y. small; the standard neither 
broadly dilated nor with the edge curled in, striate but scarcely 
furrowed, folded together lengthways but only partially con- 
cealing the perfectly ripe pod. “ Wings porrected ” Koch. 
Two upper teeth of cal. ovate short ; the 3 lower long linear- 
setaceous mostly hairy towards the tips. Style less than |- 
length of the oval swollen half-protruded pod, hooked at the 
tip. Seeds 1 or 2 chestnut-brown exactly oval, the radicle 
scarcely prominent. 
There are 2 forms of this sp. : 1, the ordinary luxuriant state 
with st. or branches 6-24 in. long ; 2, the delicate dwarf fine- 
leaved state (Ray Syn. 1. 14. f. 3) with the lower heads only 3-5- 
fld. which approaches in habit so nearly the true T. jiliforme L. 
Three good spec, of this pi. on one sheet marked u Tr. agra- 
rium Linn. Sp. PI. 1087 — Madera” in BH. sufficiently attest 
the syn. T. agrcirium of Buch. On the other hand, his T. pro- 
cumbens was doubtless founded on the u T. agrarium var. foliis 
non retusis Madera 1776 Downe” of the same Herb, marked 
also u T. procumbens ,” and which is unquestionably -true T. pro- 
cumbens L. ! 
The true T. Jiliforme\j.\ EB. 1. 1257 ( T. micranthmn “Vivian. ” 
DC., Koch), characterized by its very few (2-5 or 6) loosely 
and remotely fid. racemose umbels, delicate slender habit, 
pedic. longer than cal. -tube, quite smooth, standard and style 
much shorter than the pod, which stands in much the same 
relation as to size and habit with T. minus Relh. as the latter 
does to T. procinnbens L., has not occurred in either the Mad. 
or Can. islands. I found, however, T. minus Relh. (T. Jiliforme 
Webb, not L.) in both Grand Canary at El Monte towards the 
Baudama Crater, and in Hierro up the Vueltas at El Golfo. 
